Nature: Four years on: the career costs for scientists battling long COVID

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00819-w

 

Yep all the things that claim to be there to help are just extra energy and being played. Having a condition where people can pretend or choose not to understand because of the fantasy manifestos about ‘curing yourself with different thinking’ means bullying and ignoring is effectively allowed ‘cos it might be a treatment’

well done to them for going this route , in a job with flexibility over ways if working the truth is just not saying anything and being Kate, absent and setting meetings when you need sbd saying no is something people put up with -ironically the grumpier people are too the more people do - but as soon as there is reason it becomes a fake with processes that don’t work in our favour and seem to be written to manage out by adding work on top of work whilst claiming your hours are reduced so when you look tired there is a reason to fire you etc


I’ve never understood why people wouldn’t rather just help someone do well at less cost or issue, but wonder if it’s down to things like ‘having ill people on the books’ being seen as costs or risk eg due to early retirement later on or plain bigotry etc

certainly someone needs to start flagging processes need to be designed to be appropriate fir those with energy-limiting conditions because inside work or eg dealing with noise complaints or access to care everything works by attrition (sometimes it’s deliberate often it’s just not being blueprinted fir customer so it’s about hoops from supply sude) which really disadvantage those particular types of problem